The celebrity billionaire also declared that Khan had no right to challenge Trump.
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Khizr Khan won headlines attacking Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention. “You will see all faiths, genders, and ethnicities”. Ours is a sacrifice you will never know.
“If you look at his wife, she was standing there”, he said, on national television. He had fired back over the weekend by inferring Ghazala Khan was not allowed to speak at the convention because of her religion and cited business successes as his own sacrifice for the country. And he suggested that he wouldn’t be silent “simply because it may benefit others with whom I disagree”. “I’ve gone to too many funerals, met too many families”.
Stone has longtime ties to Trump but left the campaign in 2015, Politico reported: “Donald Trump made the surprising announcement Saturday afternoon that he was firing his top adviser, Roger Stone, but, hours before that, the political consultant’s friends told POLITICO that he was actually quitting”. I’ve worked very hard.
Khizr Khan, father of deceased Muslim U.S. Soldier Humayun S.M. Khan, holds up a booklet of the US Constitution.
Giuliani defended Trump’s moves, arguing that Khizr Khan made a “highly politicized and personal attack so I get why he’d get a little upset”.
“I am appalled that Donald Trump would disparage (the Khans) and that he had the gall to compare his own sacrifices to those of a Gold Star family”.
“Walking onto the convention stage, with a huge picture of my son behind me, I could hardly control myself”. Am I not allowed to respond?
The president conceded that troop levels have dropped somewhat from the height of the Afghan and Iraq wars.
Yes, but Trump is the face of the Republican Party. “Does he really need to wonder why I did not speak?” Trump took to Twitter saying: “Captain Khan killed 12 years ago was a hero, but this is about radical Islam terror and the weakness of our leaders to eradicate it”. Leading Republicans including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued statements in support of the family.
“Most people in this country, before this, did not know what a Gold Star family was, let alone what our sacrifice was”, Meredith said. Back in January, the Republican presidential hopeful said the USA military was “a disaster”, and last month he told a Virginia TV station “we have a military that’s depleted and in terrible shape”.
Donald Trump’s shocking reaction to the criticism he faced from the family of a Muslim American soldier who was killed in Iraq probably won’t make the difference in November’s election. John McCain said in a statement that the fact Trump won his party’s nomination doesn’t give him “unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us”. “I hope Americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican party, its officers, or candidate”. “But I think you’re hearing a guy who’s anxious about whether he can be reelected in Arizona”, Giuliani said in an interview with The Washington Post.
“Capt. Khan was killed-in-action while honorably serving his nation, and as a country, we are forever indebted to him and his family for his dedication to duty”. “He was a true American hero”.
Celeste Zappala, who also signed the letter, said the grief that Gold Star families suffer earns them the right to say whatever they want.
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The Democratic presidential candidate was scheduled to appear in Omaha Monday, where she will talk about her plans for job creation.
